ASSUMPTION OF MOSES.See Apoc. [Note: Apocalypse, Apocalyptic.] Lit., p. 40b.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
a-sump?shun. See APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Assumption Of Moses
an apocryphal book so called, said to contain an account of the death of Moses and of the translation of his soul to Paradise. Some have supposed that the particulars of the combat between St. Michael and the devil, alluded to in the Epistle of Jude (Tob_14:9), were contained in this book (Moreri, who cites Calmet).-J. A. Fabric. Cod. Pseudep. V. T. i, 839-847. SEE MOSES.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.